Intellectual Tolerance and Inquiry into “Intellect vs Revelation” at the Abant Forum

Graham E. Fuller

One of the Gülen movement’s greatest accomplishments—and a demon­stration of its search for greater universalism—has come through a remark­able process of intellectual outreach, a series of annual roundtables called the Abant Forum. These roundtables have brought together Turks of diverse intellectual backgrounds—Muslims, secularists, traditionalists, modernists, atheists, Christians, leftists, and conservatives—to hammer out some common positions on key contemporary societal issues. The product of these forums, which have continued annually, has been remarkable and is of particular relevance to intellectual debates rag­ing across the Muslim world.